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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jan 19 2008 : 06:31:54 AM
On Thursday, there was a quick news blurb about a "gruesome" find on Rt. 46, between Glencoe and Sparta, Kentucky, which is about 30 minutes from me. Apparently, a train breaker saw a car with at least 5 dead people in it...and that was all the news said.
Well, yesterday, they announced that it was a family--Dad, 33, Mom, 26 and three children 8, 3 and 18 months. Mom was also expecting again. Apparently, they've been missing since December 27th, after visiting with his mother in Glencoe. They hit this very terrible turn, and went into the Eagle creek and all drowned. The water level has dropped a little bit, so now a portion of the car was visible, which is how the breaker saw them....Apparently, folks simply thought they'd taken off to try their hand at making it somewhere else in the country.
Apparently, the family had "fallen on hard times" and had been living in Hamilton, Ohio, with a friend,or whoever would take them all in, and while visiting his mother in Glencoe, had decided to move back home to be with family. The had withdrawn their 8 year old from school to reinroll him in Kentucky. They travelled with all their belongings.
I could barely sleep last night...while my husband read the news story, I just sat here and quietly cried. I don't know them from the man in the moon, but can you imagine that a whole family just ceases to exist like this? That they were already on the margin of being invisible by living in poverty, but it breaks my heart to think of all the things that they will never accomplish. It was worse when my husband said that the mother and father had discussed their dreams of opening a dog kennel, or a catering business in Glencoe and that's what they had talked about with family over the holiday, just before they left to drive back to Hamilton only to never make it. They were found just 4 miles from his mother's home, who's home is on the bank of the creek.
Ugh. I just feel like someone kicked me in the stomach....I surely wish there was something one could do...
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jan 20 2008 : 4:59:40 PM
My mom and I talked about this on our drive today--I didn't want to talk about it much more, because I really haven't slept much thinking of them, but she just couldn't believe that the state would allow such disrepair on that road--and that people who travelled it daily said, "we've tried and tried to get someone out here for this...." The ironic part for me is that on another parallel route to the one this family travelled--is the road to Sparta, but at the exit ramp, there is the "Famed" Kentucky Speedway that supposedly draws all kinds of money and talent and people...they have a 4 lane road, with new traffic lights and street lamps lighting all the exits, and just 7 miles down the road folks, is where that poor family perished.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| 22shortie |
Posted - Jan 20 2008 : 1:06:26 PM
Thats so heartbreaking. I always wonder what would've happened if one event in the sequence would have been different..like, what if they had stopped at a fast food joint to eat and maybe the weather would have been better by the time they got to the deadly curve and they wouldn't have gone off the road...BUT, thats just me trying to make sense of it all. It's all in Gods hands and his timing is for a reason. I just wish I could hug the mother from here though. My mom and I are best friends and I cant imagine either of us loosing the other...
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| Lainey |
Posted - Jan 19 2008 : 6:35:05 PM
Jonni, they've been talking about it here on the news too. I hadn't heard that they had told who it was. This is very sad, I can't imagine how that mother feels.
Farmgirl Sister #25
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| kydeere40744 |
Posted - Jan 19 2008 : 6:20:49 PM
I saw the story on our news last night and tonight. They showed on the curve of that road, it directly drops to the creek without any guardrails. The state went out there and put orange barrels. I haven't heard anything about any funds being set up or anything. It is an odd case and a sad one too. Our thoughts and prayers are with their family.
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| farmgirl blessings |
Posted - Jan 19 2008 : 6:12:41 PM
Oh Jonni, my heart is just breaking. I'm just sick about it. I just can't understand why things like this happen?
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| bohemiangel |
Posted - Jan 19 2008 : 5:46:55 PM
WOW! That is horrible. i'm sorry honey I too feel for people. I always have. When others were hurt and I didn't know them I felt torn and people said you didn't even know them. HELLO I'm human and compassionate take a lesson. I've basically ceased reading or watching the news. I can't take it.
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| AmyEllen |
Posted - Jan 19 2008 : 5:26:14 PM
I had read about this family. I was so sad to hear that they had found them this way. Stories like this make me so leary of driving period sometimes. Although here in Kansas most everything is so flat, and not near water, that I am not too stressed here. I wish there had been a better outcome.
Amy
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| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Jan 19 2008 : 1:35:07 PM
Jonni, when something like this happens, there is no way to "make it right" but if we take a step in that direction, as you are doing, it is the best thing to do. God bless.
love,
Patricia
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| Georgia Girl |
Posted - Jan 19 2008 : 12:55:07 PM
I just read your post to my family and my mom informed me that it made the news here too (I don't watch). I just feel sick, I can't imagine what that poor mom/grandmom is going through. The grief must be overwhelming.
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jan 19 2008 : 08:08:48 AM
I know...I was thinking there might be a burial fund. I know that's morbid, but 5 people at one time? And, like I said, it seems like their circumstances were dire, so I'm pretty sure there isn't any money for that...I was going to contact local churches in Glencoe to see what they're doing...
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
| Alee |
Posted - Jan 19 2008 : 08:01:53 AM
That is horribly tragic. There just aren't words enough to describe how sad that is. Maybe you could contact the mom and see if she needs help coping or perhaps there will be a memorial fund or something?
Alee
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| BarefootGoatGirl |
Posted - Jan 19 2008 : 06:35:00 AM
That is so heartbreaking. It seems so cruel that they could just "disapear" like that. I know it happens, but it doesn't make any sense to my human thought process.
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